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Answered Error installing Package

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    steven-sa Reply #1, 9 years, 2 months ago
    Hello!

    So a client of mine had a site made with MODX and I am now migrating / taking care of it, making this my first MODX experience.

    I am running MODX Revolution 2.3.2 on MYSQL, and PHP 5.4.36.

    Everything is migrated and works fine on my test server, but when I attempt to install the "formit" package, I get this error:

    Target directory is either not a directory or writable:
    {home/pathname/public_html/pathfolder/pathfolder/}packages/

    Could not transfer package formit-2.2.0-pl.transport.zip to
    {home/pathname/public_html/pathfolder/pathfolder/}packages/.

    Could not install package with signature: formit-2.2.0-pl

    I tried finding a solution through the forums and can't find an answer to my issue. I feel as though the curly brackets { } around the directory are the problem, but I looked into my core config file and can't see where the issue could be, as all seems to be set up fine.

    I appreciate your time and help, and I apologize if the solution is simple / easy - but I looked everywhere for a solution to no avail. Thank you!

    This question has been answered by steven-sa. See the first response.

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      steven-sa Reply #2, 9 years, 2 months ago
      Well... in typing my question, I realized I didn't try checking the workspace table in my DB so I went and did a couple of tests with that and realized that the /core/ was missing from the URL. Adding that solved my problem and everything was installed fine.

      Thank you to anyone who took the time to read, and let this serve as a lesson / solution to anyone who finds themselves in a similar situation!